Improvement in ladies  fans



Fan-

11/ 57253 212mm 311 g. /45 A966,

Inventor.

Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. GRANT, OF BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO BUR- LINGTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LADIES FANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,253, dated August 14, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. GRANT, of Burlington city, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Fan 5 and I do hereby dc clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which it is allied to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which is made part of this specification.

The principal object of the present invention is to produce fans in such a cheap, economical, and simple manner as to enable them to be used by properly affixing to their sides any desired printed circulars, business-cards, 850., as an advertising medium of all classes by gratuitously distributing them in steamboats, railroad-cars, hotels, and other places of public resort.

In the accompanying plate of drawings one form and shape of my improved fan is illustrated, the figure being a front view of the same.

in the manufacture of fans under the present improvement a thin sheet or veneer of wood is taken of the requisite size and thickness, and, being placed under a punch made of the requisite shape, the punch is then brought down upon the same in any proper manner to cut or strike out from such veneer a fan of a corresponding shape thereto, with its bodyA and handle B on one and the same piece or veneer, thereby producing a fan which for cheapness and simplicity cannot be surpassed, and thus enabling it to be used to much'adva-ntage and profit by business men of all classes as a means of advertising by attaching in any proper manner to the sides of such fans their business-cards, circulars, &c., and then gratuitously distributing them in railroad-cars, steamboats, restaurants, and other places of public resort.

The peculiar shape of the periphery of the handle and body of the fan may be infinitely varied to suit the taste of the person who is to purchase or use the same, as well also as the size and the particular kind of wood veneer from which they are produced, and therefore I not intend to limit myself to any one particular shape, style, or wood used, this invention consisting in a fan as a new article of manufacture made, both its body and handle, of one and the same sheet or veneer of wood and in one piece.

The fans may be cut by means of a cylinder armed with knives so arranged as to cut a whole series at one operation and continuously, the handles projecting between the bodies of the fans and efi'ecting a great saving of material, which is nearly all taken up by fitting the patterns well into each other.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 

